http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2012-02-14T05:06:43Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelhotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/local/395 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2010/2/9/9175/34435 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/swimsuitissuemaldives.jpg" class="top"><p> Most people pick up the newest edition of the <i>Sports Illustrated</i> <b>Swimsuit Issue</b> because they want to drool over Brooklyn Decker or Bar Rafaeli in the skimpiest, totally unwearable bathing suits ever fashioned from two scraps of fabric (or seaweed or sand dollars or whatever else is lying around.)<p>But we scope out the SI because we want to know which hotels got lucky with the ladies as SI is always gives the accommodations for its photo shoots major shout-outs (at least on the <a href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010_swimsuit/onlocation/">website.</a>)<p>This year, the luckiest of the bunch has to be the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/anantara resorts"><b>Anantara Resorts</b></a> in <b>The Maldives.</b> We've always been a big fan of here at HotelChatter (hello, <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Overwater%20Bungalows">overwater bungalows</a>!) and juliana 2010-02-09T09:36:20-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/3/21/6940/55313 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/naladhu_maldives.jpg" class="imgborder"/><p>Will the Maldives ever reach saturation point when it comes to accommodation? Maybe, but certainly it hasn't yet. Another new resort has just hit the list of idyllic island resorts with the opening of <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Naladhu+Maldives/local/395"><b>Naladhu</b></a>. It's pretty small: just one small island containing nineteen "houses" (why use the term "house", when you can have bungalow, cottage or any number of exotic names)? Each house is named after a plant from the Maldives, so you'll be able to tell your place apart from your neighbor's.<p>Like far too many Maldivian island resorts, Naladhu employed a copywriter for their website who was just far too free with their use of adjectives. So the marketing tells us this about Naladhu:<blockquote><p>Free-flowing spaces. amandak 2007-03-21T11:43:26-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/